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Using a dialogical form, Eva la Cour and Dina Brode-Roger in their joint chapter on ‘Arctic Imaginaries and their Entangled Relationship with Image-production on Svalbard’ engage with experiences and thoughts concerning artists’ visual productions and artistic practices on Svalbard, and the infrastructures and imaginaries that support and shape them. The chapter draws directly from the authors’ own professional practices and, in the style of a correspondence, connects their different perspectives with recent attempts to circumnavigate how conventional structures of academic writing often disrupt, separate and stage what is actually going on.
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Brode-Roger, D., la Cour, E. (2023). Arctic Imaginaries and Their Entangled Relationship(s) with Artistic Production on Svalbard. In: Albert, M., Brode-Roger, D., Iversen, L. (eds) Svalbard Imaginaries. Arctic Encounters. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43841-7_7
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